The Minneapolis-St. Paul (Minn.) StarTribune newspaper, in its blog entitled “On Weather,” stated today that Moorhead, Minn. — only 30 miles south of Hendrum, where I live — was the “hottest, most humid spot on earth Tuesday evening”:
“The coolwx.com site shows global extremes from hour to hour. Tuesday evening, around the dinner hour, the dew point at Moorhead reached 87.8 F, making this the most humid reporting station on the planet. The heat index peaked at an almost incomprehensible 134 F. at Moorhead.”
Hearty — or foolish! — people that we are, my family and I were OUTSIDE at my youngest’s teeball game, and there was NO shade at the ball field! Fortunately, it only lasted an hour. I wouldn’t have even taken him if it hadn’t been the last game of the season. He would have been awfully sad to have had to miss out.
(By the way, the picture below is not of our ball diamond — WAY too much shelter from the sun to be ours!!)
I hope the rest of you are surviving summer quite nicely — spoiled, perhaps, as we are by our air-conditioning and fans, and fortunate to not be homeless on days like these. Summer blessings to you all!
